arca
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Pedra da Arca dolmen, Vimianzo, Galicia
Balinese
Romanization
arca
- Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
arca f (plural arques)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “arca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
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Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
arca f (plural arcas)
Etymology 2
From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.
Pronunciation
Noun
arca f (plural arcas)
- ark; chest; coffer
- Synonym: hucha
- box; casket
- Synonym: couselo
- (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
- dolmen, megalith
- thoracic cavity
- Synonym: cavidade torácica
Derived terms
References
- “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “arca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “arca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “arca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hungarian
Etymology
arc (“face”) + -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
Noun
arca
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc
- Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | arca | — |
| accusative | arcát | — |
| dative | arcának | — |
| instrumental | arcával | — |
| causal-final | arcáért | — |
| translative | arcává | — |
| terminative | arcáig | — |
| essive-formal | arcaként | — |
| essive-modal | arcául | — |
| inessive | arcában | — |
| superessive | arcán | — |
| adessive | arcánál | — |
| illative | arcába | — |
| sublative | arcára | — |
| allative | arcához | — |
| elative | arcából | — |
| delative | arcáról | — |
| ablative | arcától | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
arcáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
arcáéi | — |
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).
Pronunciation
Noun
arca
- idol, a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
Further reading
- “arca” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
arca f (plural arche)
- ark (casket or tomb)
Derived terms
- arca di Noè (“Noah's ark”)
- arcaro
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
arca f (genitive arcae); first declension
- chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
- coffin (box for the dead)
- ark (kind of ship)
- (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | arca | arcae |
| Genitive | arcae | arcārum |
| Dative | arcae | arcīs |
| Accusative | arcam | arcās |
| Ablative | arcā | arcīs |
| Vocative | arca | arcae |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: arca
- Old Galician-Portuguese: arca, archa
- Old Spanish: arca, archa
- Spanish: arca
- → Albanian: arkë
- → Czech: archa
- → Proto-Germanic: *arkō (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: arca
- → Latvian: arka
- → Lithuanian: arka
- → Macedonian: арка (arka)
- → Maltese: arka
- → Norman: arche
- → Old English: ærc
- English: ark
- → Old French: arche
- → Old Irish: árc, áirc
- → Old Polish: archa (learned) (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: arca
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: archa
- → Welsh: arch
- → Cornish: argh
- → Breton: arc'h
References
- “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
- to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
- “arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Malay
Etymology
From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /ˈart͡ʃə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /ˈart͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -t͡ʃə, -ə
Noun
arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca, informal 1st possessive arcaku, 2nd possessive arcamu, 3rd possessive arcanya)
- sculpture, idol
- a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
- (computing) icon
Further reading
- “arca” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).
Pronunciation
Noun
arca
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "arca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɾkɐ
- Hyphenation: ar‧ca
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, borrowed from Latin arca. First attested in 1109.
Noun
arca f (plural arcas)
- ark
- 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, →ISBN:
- ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?
- ... a certain type of «divisions» that would allow him to arrange his papers «in due order», in order to replace his «big box» (the famous and mythical ark?) ...) ...
- (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)
- (malacology) ark clam (mollusc in the genus Arca)
- (dated) coffer (strong chest used for keeping valuables safe)
- (by extension, dated) coffer (a supply of money belonging to an organization)
- (dated) thorax
- (Brazil, colloquial) pawnshop
- Synonym: casa de penhores
- (Trás-os-Montes) hug
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
arca
- inflection of arcar:
References
- “arca” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “arca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “arca” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “arca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“to enclose”).
Pronunciation
Noun
arca f (plural arcas)
Usage notes
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el arca, un arca
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Derived terms
- arca de agua
- arca de la Alianza (“Ark of the Covenant”)
- arca de Noé (“Noah's ark”)
- arca del cuerpo
- arca del diluvio
- arca del pan
- arca del testamento
- arcón
- arqueta
- arquilla
- en arca abierta el justo peca
Further reading
- “arca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014